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RESEARCH IN NUCLEAR AND RADIOCHEMISTRY. Annual Progress Report for Year Ending January 31, 1964

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:4085581
High-energy reaction results are presented for the isomeric ratios of Te/ sup 127/ and Te/sup 129/ as formed in (p,pn) reactions and in neutron-transfer reactions with C/sup 12/ and N/sup 14/. The fission recoil ranges of fragments in 150-Mev proton fission of U/sup 238/, as determined in recent years, are discussed briefly. Continued search for the mass region in which fission in the liquid-drop sense should vanish is reported. A model is proposed to explain reactions which are characterized by neither single-particle excitation nor compound-nucleus formation but rather by some intermediate form of excitation, In compound-nuclear reaction studies, isomeric cross-section ratios of Ce/sup 137/, formed by the reactions La/sup 139/(p,3n), Ba/sup 136/( alpha ,3n), and Te/sup 128/ (C/sup 12/,3n) , are reported. A theoretical treatment for isomeric ratios in alpha particle-induced reactions is presented in which the effect of competing evaporation paths is explicitly taken into account. The moments of inertia deduced are invariably less than the rigid-body value. A revised model is proposed in which the level density is taken to be zero for spins above a certain maximum value which is determined by a Fermi gas model. (auth)
Research Organization:
Clark Univ., Worcester, Mass.
NSA Number:
NSA-18-013839
OSTI ID:
4085581
Report Number(s):
TID-20201
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English